By Hinojosa H.B. No. 1240 75R5057 PEP-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of certain federal peace officers to 1-3 enforce state law relating to public intoxication and driving while 1-4 intoxicated. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Article 2.122, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-7 amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-8 (c) A customs inspector of the United States Customs Service 1-9 or a border patrolman or immigration officer of the United States 1-10 Department of Justice is not a peace officer under the laws of this 1-11 state but has the powers of arrest and search and seizure as to an 1-12 offense under Section 49.02 or 49.04, Penal Code, or an offense 1-13 under Section 49.07 or 49.08, Penal Code, committed while the actor 1-14 was operating a motor vehicle. A customs inspector, border 1-15 patrolman, or immigration officer who arrests or detains a person 1-16 younger than 17 years of age under the authority of this subsection 1-17 shall release or deliver the person as provided by Section 52.02, 1-18 Family Code. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.